Detective work locates dozens of recorded live performances, including 15 songs the late country icon never released Nancy Kruh is a Nashville-based writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has covered the ...

This would have been a very different song.

A 1961 crossover hit by Patsy Cline, written by Willie Nelson, remains one of the most celebrated country songs ever recorded ...

Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 29, 2025. Click here for that audio. Singer Patsy Cline helped create the Nashville sound, a crossover between country and pop, in the 1950s and ...

Since I was a little girl, I’ve adored Patsy Cline. Her soulful country ballads– not to mention those sung by the likes of Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Emmylou Harris and so many of her contemporaries ...

Before Willie Nelson moved to Austin, braided his hair, and created a country music counter-culture, he was a clean-cut songwriter cutting his teeth in Nashville, Tennessee. While Willie, then known ...